overwhelmed - Story 99807 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter’s bold headline screamed at him: “You are a match.” He ripped it open, his hands trembling. The words swam on the page, the details of a life he knew nothing about. A sister, living in a different country, with a completely different background. He dropped the letter onto the counter, suddenly unable to look at it. He ran a hand through his hair, a desperate, jerky movement. His chest felt constricted, as if a weight was pressing down on him, making it hard to breathe. He felt cold.

Emotion: overwhelmed

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.52 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.94

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion overwhelmed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 overwhelmed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the overwhelmed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the overwhelmed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.385
`😫`	0.332
`😖`	0.319
`😣`	0.319
`😩`	0.314

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.576
`de`	-0.496
`a`	-0.297
`happy`	-0.290
`l`	-0.264